A peek at the first chapter of The Abolitionists, Part 2, premiering January 15, 2013, 9pm on PBS.
From letters of the second U.S. president, John Adams, and his wife, Abigail, this film explores their tumultuous times.
A peanut farmer who rose to become America's 39th president. Part of the award-winning Presidents collection.
The women's suffrage movement won the right to vote when the 19th Amendment passed in 1920.
A great playwright's turbulent story, from childhood through the years of his Nobel Prize-winning career to his lonely, painful death.
Brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright built a flying machine that made its first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903.
A man who symbolized African American equality fought a proponent of Hitler's Aryan racial theories on the eve of World War II.
Thoroughbred racehorse Seabiscuit was the long shot that captured America's heart during the Depression.
A writer's childhood and the development of her photography and writing about the American South.